Juvenile diabetes is the most common endocrine disease during infancy and adolescence
causing serious coping problems so adolescents must adapt to and effectively manage their illness.
Aim: this study aimed to assess the self-efficacy among adolescents with juvenile diabetes. Design: A
descriptive research design was utilized in the current study. Setting: This study was conducted at
outpatient pediatric endocrinology clinic at Beni Suef university Hospital. Subjects: A purposive
sample of 84 adolescents with juvenile diabetes attending the previously mentioned study setting.
Tools of data collection: Three tools were used to collect data: tool (1) interviewing questionnaire: (2)
checklist of reported practices, tool (3) self-efficacy scale. Results: more than half of the studied
adolescents had unsatisfactory total knowledge level about juvenile diabetes, more than two thirds of
them had incomplete reported practices and nearly two thirds of them had a low self-efficacy score.
Conclusion: Adolescents with juvenile diabetes had un satisfactory total knowledge score and
incomplete total reported practices. In addition to, most of them had a low self-efficacy score.
Recommendation: Continuous educational programs to improve self-efficacy of the adolescents with
juvenile diabetes.